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Hello, I'm Jim Brune, Executive Director of DCARA
On Sunday, March 24,
is a big anniversary!
On March 24th, is exactly one year since DCARA celebrated its 50th year GALA
One year, wow!
and March 24 also is when the city San Leandro recoginzed this day as DCARA Day
Wow, what a big annivesary, one year later!
How far we have come in that year since!
Many things has occured at DCARA
For example, we formed a new department, the Family Connections,
where we provide deaf one-on-one counseling, community education, classes for deaf parents and families
of deaf and hard-of-hearing children
Very exciting!
Also, we just opened our fifth Employment Service office in Concord
very exciting!
also, we've been working on becoming vendorized
with Department of Rehab to provide specialized
employment services for deaf and hard of hearing in individual and group settings
to develop their skills so they can be employed
also, we've hosted our first ever Literacy Camp for the deaf children at the Deaf Community Center
last summer
also, we've partnered with many different organizations
to help raise funds for those organizations as well as to provide community education workshops
Who have we worked with? We have worked with the local Deaf Latino/Latina community,
the local Black Deaf community,
Deaf Youth Arts,
also, we worked with Bay Area Asian Deaf Association,
and we also partnered with NorCRID (Northern California Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf)
So with that many partnerships, it had helped strengthened the community
So, there has been many things happening in that one year,
there is so much to look forward to in this next year!
I want to share several things with you
Couple of things:
We've been working on Strategic Planning
We have been working hard to develop DCARA's strategic vision
for the next 5-10 years
we have developed a new set of values
that reflect our daily work in DCARA
we also developed a new draft mission statement
we also developed a new draft of vision statement
we've been developing these drafts with input from
from our staff, the board members, we are very excited to share these things with you
also we will be hosting a community input meeting
later this spring before the summer
the purpose of these meetings?
we would like to share with you our values, mission, and vision statements
and also we would like to get feeback from you about our programs and services here at DCARA
Are they working? what's not working?
and also we would like to listen what the community want to see
happen here at DCARA, any changes, we want to listen from you
and also get you involved!
After we collect all your feedbacks,
We plan to collect the information, sort and develop one strategic plan
and then we will release it to the community
when? at the Deaf Community Night event
on December 7th
That time we will announce our new strategic plan for the futre
what our new vision look like, our new future
also, strategic plan,
secondly, in December will be 20th Anniversary
of the opening of Deaf Community Center
so, December 7th, 2013,
we will be hosting two joint events:
20th Anniversary of Deaf Community Center,
and our deaf community awards night (DCN)
so 20th Anniversary for DCC and
also we will share our strategic plan
and share our five-years annually report
This is really exiciting news, we want to keep you involved
in our work since and from this point and on
also we are looking forward to see you on Dec 7th 2013!
For details and updates about this event,
please keep an eye on our website,
sign up for our eNews,
or follow us on our Facebook Page!
Thanks!
and again, happy one year anniversary of DCARA Day!
and one year since our 50th GALA!